Big law firms with white-collar practices win cases in part by raiding the enemy’s talent. At least that’s what they tell prospective clients. And University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett offers evidence that the biggest companies tend to get deferred prosecutions in his November 2014 book Too Big to Jail. He collected information on the DOJ’s 255 deferred-prosecution and non-prosecution agreements and more than 2000 corporate convictions between 2001 and 2012.
Jerry Stenger, director of the state climatology office at the University of Virginia, said the forecast on Monday showed a likely accumulation of 10 inches of snow in the Shenandoah Valley, and said the snow would fall until around 10 Tuesday morning. Stenger said the combination of snow and the extreme cold make it more difficult for snow-clearing chemicals to work. "And even if it (snow) melts during the day, it will refreeze at night,'' Stenger said.
When you were in middle school, what did you want to be? Popular. So psychologist Joseph Allen, who teaches at the University of Virginia, decided to track a large class of middle school kids into adulthood. "We interviewed those adolescents, their parents, their peers, we looked at how popular they were within their class," says Allen. In particular he wanted to focus on the most popular kids, the ones who were on the fast track. They dated early, they were famous for sneaking alcohol or drugs, and they always had a story to tell. "What we found when we followed them up is that...
Andrew Cuomo's political body language suggests he's deeply involved in New York affairs and giving little thought to national politics. "I don't get the impression he is overly ambitious for the presidency," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Cuomo has other fish to fry."
UVA associate dean and professor Ken White on why Charlottesville's nursing shortage is so acute – and how the nursing school is teaching nurses-to-be strategies to combat burnout, and boost resilience.
Profs. Ishan Williams and Randy Jones on African-Americans' suspicion of and resistance to participating in health care research, and how that spills over into their own patterns of health.
South Dakota U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem has ended 2014 with about $800,000 in the bank. Recently released 2014 year-end campaign finance reports show Noem raised nearly $2.4 million through the end of 2014 and spent more than $1.6 million. Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, says Noem is in solid shape for a re-election campaign in 2016.
In popular media coverage, the retreat in marriage tends to focus on Millennials, minorities and lower-income workers as the backbone of this phenomenon. Pew reported that 25 percent of Millennials never intend to get married, African-American women are three times more likely to never marry than white women, while low-income individuals are less likely to be married even though they tend to put high value on the institution. “Part of the story here, of course, is economic. It’s precisely among lower-income and working-class people and Millennials...
Thomas Jefferson is known as one of America’s founding fathers, but he also was proud of his creation of the University of Virginia. Jefferson is believed to be the only U.S. president to have ever founded an institution of higher learning.
The University of Virginia is one of six university medical centers to win a $7 million dollar grant from the federal government that should save patients time and money while providing better care.
The educational-technology market is flooded with companies that say their products will “disrupt” or “revolutionize” how faculty and administrators work and students learn. To cut through the noise, the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education is launching an ed-tech accelerator that will help start-ups bring their solutions to the market -- if the product lives up to the company’s claims.
The Jefferson Education Accelerator will give ed-tech companies the ability to have their products tested in K-12 districts and in colleges through independent reviews—and potentially, be given an imprimatur of evidence-based success that they can market to districts attempting to make sense of a burgeoning and often bewildering array of such products. In return, the accelerator will receive equity in the businesses that pass muster, an arrangement intended to produce monetary returns to sustain the project. The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia ...
University of Virginia Rector George K. Martin was among the four people recognized as trailblazers at Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church’s annual Founder’s Day celebration.
The University of Virginia and Charlottesville community came together to honor three Muslim students killed near the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A vigil took place in the UVA McIntire Amphitheatre Sunday night to remember the three students who police say were killed by their neighbor Tuesday.
Virginia has served as a model state for university mental-health reform since 2008, when it changed its laws in the wake of the 2007 shooting spree at Virginia Tech, according to Richard J. Bonnie, director of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry, and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and chair of the Virginia Commission on Mental Health Law Reform from 2006 to 2011.
U.S. officials blame a lack of sufficient evidence to press charges, but experts say a more likely explanation is a shortage of government resources, and perhaps willpower, to go toe-to-toe with America’s richest companies and the people who run them. Instead, prosecutors now seem to prefer hefty civil suits as their weapons of choice in fighting white-collar crime. “The [dearth] of prosecutions is why people have ‘too big to jail’ concerns,” says Brandon Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor who wrote a book on the subject. “It’s not just ab...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expanding a crackdown on a little-known program to dole out visas to wealthy foreigners in exchange for investments that generate jobs. “It’s not been demonstrated that it does much to create jobs, it’s given rise to a lot of questionable schemes, and it’s very complicated,” said David Martin, a law professor at the University of Virginia who has served as general counsel to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
When it comes to styles of thought, American conservatives have more in common with East Asian cultures than they do American liberals. And those liberals? They’re WEIRD. That’s the takeaway from a paper published recently in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, based on research led by University of Virginia doctoral candidate Thomas Talhelm.
Once upon a time, you may have thrived in the workplace by being smart. But I.Q. smart may not be enough any more. Furthermore, what you already know may not count as much as your willingness to acknowledge what you don’t know and your willingness to learn more. Edward Hess, a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has done some interesting research into the need to be an “adaptive learner,” a person who honestly sees his or her shortcomings and asks the right questions.
Civil rights leader Julian Bond has teamed up with a University of Virginia historian to document the experiences of 51 African-American leaders.Bond and professor Phyllis Leffler discussed their project during a joint appearance at UVA's Miller Center Wednesday.